pyccoma 0.6.1

Scrape and download from Piccoma Japan and France.

Pyccoma

Directly download smartoon, manga, and novels from Piccoma Japan and Piccoma France.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11

Install

$ pip install pyccoma

Getting Started

Using the command-line utility

To download a single episode, simply use:

$ pyccoma https://piccoma.com/web/viewer/103981/2646730

You can also pass multiple links (separated by whitespace) to download in one go, then use the --archive option to output to a cbz archive.

$ pyccoma https://piccoma.com/web/viewer/60171/1575237 https://piccoma.com/web/viewer/8195/1185884 --archive

Use the option --region to switch between Piccoma Japan (default) and Piccoma France.

$ pyccoma https://piccoma.com/fr/viewer/49/2946 --region fr

Access purchased episodes from your library by logging in using the --email option.

$ pyccoma purchase --region fr --filter all --include is_purchased --email [e-mail]
$ pyccoma purchase --region jp --filter all --include is_purchased --email [e-mail]

Read more about the available CLI options on the next section below. You can also see more examples here on how to aggregate and batch download using the command-line utility.

Using Python shell

Import the Pyccoma class according to their region.

Module	Description
pyccoma.jp	Piccoma Japan
pyccoma.fr	Piccoma France

Create a Pyccoma instance and use fetch to scrape and download images from a viewer page.

>>> from pyccoma.jp import Pyccoma
>>> jp = Pyccoma()
>>> jp.fetch('https://piccoma.com/web/viewer/8195/1185884')

Title: ひげを剃る。そして女子高生を拾う。(しめさば ぶーた 足立いまる)
Episode: 第1話 失恋と女子高生 (1)
  |███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 100.0% (14/14)
Elapsed time: 00:00:17

>>> from pyccoma.fr import Pyccoma
>>> fr = Pyccoma()
>>> fr.fetch('https://piccoma.com/fr/viewer/49/2944')

Title: Roxana (BAEK JI-YEON Juniljus Kin)
Episode: #1 Il est mon seul espoir de survie
  |███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 100.0% (80/80)
Elapsed time: 00:00:47

You can use login to have access to rental or paywalled episodes from your own library.

>>> jp.login(email, password)
>>> jp.fetch('https://piccoma.com/web/viewer/s/4995/1217972', 'output_dir')

Title: かぐや様は告らせたい～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～(赤坂アカ)
Episode: 第135話
  |███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 100.0% (20/20)
Elapsed time: 00:00:23

Options

Required

Option	Description	Examples
url	Must be a valid url	https://piccoma.com/web/product/4995/episodes?etype=V, https://piccoma.com/web/product/12482/episodes?etype=E, https://piccoma.com/web/viewer/12482/631201, https://piccoma.com/fr/product/volume/109, https://piccoma.com/fr/product/episode/231, bookmark, history, purchase

Locale

Option	Description	Examples
--region	Select which service to use	Jp (Piccoma Japan), Fr (Piccoma France)

Optional

Option	Description	Examples
-o, --output	Local directory to save downloaded images	D:/piccoma/ (absolute path), /piccoma/download/ (relative path)
-f, --format	Image format	jpeg, jpg, gif, bmp, png (default)
-p, --pad	Pad page numbers with leading zeroes	0 (default)
--archive	Download as cbz archive
--omit-author	Omit author names from titles

Retry

Option	Description	Examples
--retry-count	Number of download retry attempts when error occurred	3 (default)
--retry-interval	Delay between each retry attempt (in seconds)	1 (default)

Login

Option	Description	Examples
--email	Your registered email address; this does not support OAuth authentication	[e-mail]

Filter

Option	Description	Examples
--etype	Preferred episode type to scrape manga, smartoon, and novel when scraping history, bookmark, purchase; takes in three arguments, the first one for manga, the second for smartoon, and the last one for novel	volume to scrape for volumes, episode to scrape for episodes
--filter	Filter to use when scraping episodes from a product page or your library	min, max, all, or custom by defining --range. Use min to scrape for the first item, max for the last item, all to scrape all items, and custom to scrape for a specific index range
--range	Range to use when scraping episodes; takes in two arguments, start and end; will always override --filter to parse custom, if omitted or otherwise	0 10 will scrape the first up to the tenth episode
--include	Status arguments to include when parsing a library or product; can parse in | and & operators as conditionals, see use cases below	is_purchased, is_free, is_zero_plus, is_already_read, is_read_for_free, is_wait_until_free
--exclude	Status arguments to exclude when parsing a library or product; can parse in | and & operators as conditionals, see use cases below	is_purchased, is_free, is_zero_plus, is_already_read, is_read_for_free, is_wait_until_free

Logging

Option	Description	Examples
-l, --loglevel	Set the log message threshold	debug, info (default), warning, error, none

Examples

Use the --include and --exclude options in the command-line utility to narrow down which items are included in an aggregation.

Argument	Description
is_free	Free-to-access volumes/episodes
is_wait_until_free	Episodes that can be accessed by waiting/using free pass
is_read_for_free	Episodes that are accessed using free pass
is_purchased	Purchased volumes/episodes
is_zero_plus	Free-to-access episodes
is_already_read	Items that have been accessed before; formatted as grayed-out rows

Aggregating and downloading in batch

• Downloading all free episodes in a single product page:

$ pyccoma https://piccoma.com/web/product/67171/episodes?etype=E --filter all --include is_free

• Downloading all free episodes across multiple products:

$ pyccoma https://piccoma.com/web/product/5523/episodes?etype=E https://piccoma.com/web/product/23019/episodes?etype=E --filter all --include is_free

• Downloading all first episodes across multiple products:

$ pyccoma https://piccoma.com/web/product/6575/episodes?etype=E https://piccoma.com/web/product/41993/episodes?etype=E --filter min

• Downloading using custom with range:

$ pyccoma https://piccoma.com/web/product/16070/episodes?etype=E --filter custom --range 1 5

Disclaimer

Pyccoma was made for the sole purpose of helping users download media from Piccoma for offline consumption. This is for private use only, do not use this tool to promote piracy.